Nicaragua Follows Its Own Path In Dealing With Drug Traffickers : ... As the U.S. cable explains, it's a relationship that dates back to the '80s, when Ortega cut a transit deal with Pablo Escobar.

Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega in 1984 helped Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in exchange for money, according to a leaked diplomatic cable from the U.S. embassy in Manuagua, released by ...

Furthermore, it says: "In 1984, Daniel Ortega negotiated a deal with Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar whereby Escobar received refuge for several months in Nicaragua after he had ordered the ...

Op-Ed: Nicaragua was one of Latin America’s least violent countries. ... The claims go back to the 1980s, when Ortega was accused of colluding with the kingpin Pablo Escobar.

“Escobar, when he started the drug trafficking battle here in Colombia after the death of Rodrigo Lara Bonilla in 1984, Escobar travels to Panama, and that’s when it so happens that the pilot, a DEA ...

A quarter-century after the death of cocaine king Pablo Escobar, his right-hand man reveals his operational secrets in an exclusive new series for The Daily Beast.

A quarter-century after the death of cocaine king Pablo Escobar, ... Mexico, the Bahamas, Cuba, Panama, Haiti, and Nicaragua. Aircraft went with cocaine and returned with money and weapons.

What's most striking at first is the resemblance: a beefy frame and puffy cheeks. Deep-set black eyes. A double chin. In fact, if Sebastián Marroquín grew a mustache, he would be the spitting image ...

A nephew of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar has said he found a plastic bag with money worth $18m (£14m) hidden in the wall of one of his uncle's houses.

The government of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega was financed by the proceeds of the drugs trade, according to Wikileaks' US diplomatic cables. Mr Ortega and his Sandinista party allegedly ...